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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 16 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from In Re: Robert B. Surrick.

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1 In Re: Robert B. Surrick Anchor
ca3 · 2003
green “the central question of all mootness problems is whether changes in circumstances that prevailed at the beginning of the litigation have forestalled any occasion for meaningful relief.” 8
2 The Dow Chemical Company v. United States Environmental Protection Agency and Douglas Costle, Administrator
ca3 · 1979
green “(1) a legal controversy that is real and not hypothetical, (2) a legal controversy that affects an individual in a concrete manner so as to provide the factual predicate for reasoned adjudication, and (3) a legal controversy with sufficiently adverse parties so as to sharpen the…” 5
3 Luu v. Esterly
paed · 2019
green “is a limitation on the state's power to act, but it does not 'impose an affirmative obligation on the state to ensure that those life, liberty, and property interests do not come to harm through other means.” 3

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